Nigel Pearson Quotes

'Baker Towers' is the book I've always known I would write, but it wasn't an easy book to do.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

I've always been a writer.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

I would like to one day write a nice big novel and enjoy writing it and people enjoy reading it but I cannae be bothered or I don't have any ideas that would fill up a big book like that.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.